Senior Product Writer

Duolingo•New York City, NY

32d

About The Position

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in! Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun . From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning. Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. About the role As a writer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.

Requirements

A brain that’s always buzzing with ideas
A portfolio with compelling UX writing examples for a consumer app
Experience in both UX writing and consumer copywriting
A gift for expressing complicated things in plain language
An ability to adapt your writing for different voices
Experience taking a leadership stance, whether in title or behavior
The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York City
Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy.

Nice To Haves

Experience writing and designing for payment flows
Experience developing new and novel content models
Experience collaborating with translators
A Duolingo streak!

Responsibilities

Give voice to Duolingo’s features and functionality, writing in the Duolingo voice and from the perspective of characters like Lily and Oscar
Drive the messaging, content strategy, and naming for product experiences, landing on pithy turns of phrase that land with our learners
Partner with product designers and product managers on new features and interactions based on data and insights
Design new pathways to content, make existing features better, and craft fun, new ways for our learners to unlock knowledge
Focus on a few projects at a time and drive their content strategy
Run experiments and share insights so your wins can have a greater impact
Work with our localization team to ensure A+ translation
Report to the Director of Product Writing. We sit within the Design department, the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo

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